bolsos berlin is a small Upcycling-brand in Berlin. As a solo entrepreneur I create accessories with advertising banners, used sails, event-materials and other "industrial" waste like offset-printing mats. In our (I share the space with an other upcycling-artist) Work-Shop in Berlin-Kreuzberg I create, develop, manufacture and sell one-of-a-kind bags, backpacks, wallets, hip bags, bike-panners...
I upcycle retired outdoor fabrics into useful products and textile art. I also teach sewing workshops and provide a specialist outdoor gear repair service
Katherine Soucie, PhD, is a British-Canadian artist, designer whose work centres on creative reuse, remanufacturing, and mending. With over 25+ years of experience upcycling, her award winning studio/brand, Sans Soucie, works across textiles, fashion, and visual art, developing multidisciplinary approaches that transform textile industry waste into new materials and applications.
We are a non-profit organization and we sell donated goods to raise funds for our organization. We focus on skills development through upcycling projects. Our organization is funded by the sales from our thrift store.
POST—MATTER is a multidisciplinary design studio by Adele Zavagno. She is a designer based between Italy and the Netherlands who works with local and discarded materials merging the worlds of textiles and biodesign.
Practicing mender studying repair economies and place-based practices that keep clothes in use. With a background as a clothing designer, Donna researches fashion's overlooked side through practice, treating repair as a critical part of circular design and bringing it to the forefront at design inception rather than at the end of a product's
